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Register of the Hislop (Steven K.) Southeast Asian Refugee Adjustment Collection, 1971-1991
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  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Hislop (Steven K.) Southeast Asian Refugee Adjustment Collection,
    Date (inclusive): 1971-1991
    Collection number: Mss263
    Creator: Steven K. Hislop
    Extent: 0.5 linear ft.
    Repository: University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
    Stockton, CA 95211
    Shelf location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
    Language: English.

    Administrative Information

    Access

    Collection is open for research.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Hislop (Steven K.) Southeast Asian Refugee Adjustment Collection, Mss263, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

    Biography

    Steven Hislop served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam from 1967 through 1969. In the latter year he took a B.A. in Religion from Milligan College in Tennessee. Hislop subsequently studied linguistics and cross-cultural communications at the University of Texas, Arlington, and theology at the Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena (Calif.), before taking an M.A. in South East Asian Studies at the University of the Philippines (1978). He was employed during the 1980s as an ESL instructor in Santa Ana (Calif.)and as a free-lance employment counselor in Fresno. His responsibilities in this work included training others to assist Asian-born students to adjust to American culture. An evangelical Christian, Hislop is also involved with broadcast and print evangelism in Southeast Asia through organizations such as Evangelicals for Social Action/Fresno.

    Scope and Content

    The Hislop Collection contains newsletters, syllabi, tests, bibliographies, reports and other materials relevant to teaching Asian immigrants to read and write English. It also contains brochures pertaining to Christian evangelism among Asians.